Apple's iPhone 5 is "fastest smartphone in the land" - Page 3

 

LOL. "kicks sand in the face"... How old are you?  This reminds me of the He-Man body-building ads in the comic books of the 1950s.  

 

Then there's the story of the 98-pound weakling...  He spent a summer in Alaska -- and when he came back he was a husky fucker!

 

About the same as three Galaxy S III screen replacements, you'd better keep some of that KY handy if you drop your slower phone.

SOT:

 

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/09/apple-cuts-display-orders-to-samsung-loses-patent-case-in-germany.html#more

 

Phffffttttt... the sound of a deflating balloon!

Edited by Dick Applebaum - 9/22/12 at 1:31am

Wow! I'm happy that a beautiful mind responded to me!

I can see how the cute girl would be a plus to guys. "Sex sells" is something I hear a lot.

I've seen the security devices I believe, but I don't go to stores often so I don't know how they detract from the experience. I only go to stores for clothes. You do have to try them on after all... Unless you get custom.

I'm really interested in the quality. I think stainless steel is an amazing non-ferrous metal. I didn't like the fact that Apple changed to Al, which also carries with it all of the problems with Al. However with my iPad 3 (or new iPad) there doesn't seem to be a problem with dissimilar metals. Everything seems to be distanced well and no bonding seems apparent. Well engineered!

I gather you went to the store to purchase your phone. I didn't read anything about stock outs. Even on Apple sites. Should be interesting both to investors and speculators.

How is the new connector? Is it really that much faster? Do you think Apple should put it in the iPad right now as an 'unnoticed' update?

I'm also reading about how much faster it is. If my iPhone 4 is working with no 'tech verbiage' stutters on iOS 6, will I notice? I would love Siri on my phone but having it on the iPad is almost better. I have the knowledge to do it but my father says "Right is always right. You have no need to cheat."

Also, it supposedly charges faster. Do you believe it would charge the iPad 3 faster? Irrelevant, because the three will never have that connector and the next one will be battery optimized for the new chip.

LTE is a relatively market ploy. Those that use it are never far from WiFi. Those that do not are not near anything useful. It is definitely faster than WiFi though. While trying to heat up my iPad during the heat issues I was playing movies over LTE for quite a long time (LTE is available in Boston). My iPad never heated up.

 

Unfortunately, we've been at it a bit longer than you:

 

 

When you purchase a category of phone that is in the majority, who exactly is the 'iSheep'?

 

When you're ready for build-quality, style, and refinement rather than penis-enhancing specs, visit an Apple store.

Try doing it in person. My dear father pays a person to prevent what you are implying.

Have you ever seen a Football tackle? It's funnier in person!

Yes your quote is taken extremely out of context.

Also, thank you for 'bringing that to the table'.

Water flows downhill.

You heard it here first!

 

Sorry for the loud sound...

 

 

 

 

That was funny!


...oh wait? Not really.

Leave posting cool pics to those that used to post cool pics.

 

Please feel free to lead by example, Oh Great One!

 Build Quality - No, try the Oppo Finder, that phone can hammer a nail to a wooden board and not break (Literally, check out the youtube video), and it's the thinnest smartphone ever (Unlike what Apple has you believing)

Style - Yes, if you're the guy that pulls out his iPhone just to impress other people (Because NOBODY has the iPhone /s)

Refinement - Definitely true, probably the best iPhone has going for them (If you discount the downgrade iOS 6 brought with garbage Maps)

 

Actually, it should be usurped quicker than that. The problem is that it will be 'usurped' by a phone with cheap plastic body, poor battery life and running laggy apps on top of a stolen JVM.

 

The speed is a nice bonus, but that's not what makes it a better phone.

 Stolen JVM? Didn't a jury find Google not guilty?

Once again, how about a side-by-side comparison under the same conditions? Especially one where the test conditions are spelled out.

Many of the Geekbench numbers are based on hacked phones where many, if not most, features have been deactivated in order to get very high performance.

PC Magazine, OTOH, ran side-by-side tests of various phones using a pretty wide variety of tests and under controlled conditions. Anyone but a fandroid would consider that to be much more reliable.

Then the dual core would be a more accurate comparison, because the iPhone 5 has LTE, making it better like-for-like comparison. Quad core may be faster, but I don't expect anyone that wants the most advanced phone would reach for one without LTE.

Not necessarily irrational.  I have had two kernel panics in two days on my MBP Retina.  Quite a few other people are having the problem as well.  Being an early adopter with Apple can be a worry at times.  Of course in usual Apple style, they don't acknowledge there is a problem and don't tell anyone if they are working on a fix.  If they do come up with a fix, they still don't tell anyone, just slip it into an OS update and hope those afflicted do the update at some point.

 

So I'm currently having a nervous time beta testing for Apple and hoping they can fix it with software and that there isn't an intrinsic hardware problem.

 

B…b…but… seven years! Not months! You're obviously lying. Google has had time to fix this by now.

Being made up for possibly by Apple having to go cap in hand to Samsung asking for more MBP Retina screens, because the ones from LG/Sharp are rubbish.  On the Apple support forums there's quite a thread about MBP Retina screen problems.  Those who find they have a Samsung screen breathe a sigh of relief while those who don't groan or make other unhappy noises.

Edited by cnocbui - 9/22/12 at 7:31am

Except perhaps the overwhelming majority of the world's phone users who don't have access to LTE.

 

Of course Samsung recently announced they had produced the worlds first A15 core based mobile SOC.  When they get that beast into a phone, and the iP5 no longer has the speed crown, benchmarks will again become a dirty word.

It looks like Fandroids now Haemorrhoids after these results.

It's not insulting to use such slurs when your writing and formatting are at the seventh grade level.

For one, I don't pay close attention to phone specs between upgrades because contracts last two years, anything in between makes no difference to me because it will all be replaced by new models. I also have no reason to know the minutiae of phones that won't reach my shores either.

Sorry, haters, the iPhone 5 is the fastest phone around with the most advanced architecture in an SoC.

 

Next gen processors? They are already here. The iPhone 5 even beats the newest Snapdragon S4 Pro. In case you're wondering the S4 Pro has four Krait cores clocked at 1.5-1.7GHz (where the regular S4 has two cores) and has the latest Adreno 320 GPU. And even with with twice the cores and being clocked 50% faster the iPhone 5 still beats them in Sunspider and Browsermark.

 

In the "synthetic" Geekbench, the newest S4 Pro come in at 1,750-1,800, so it's slightly faster than the iPhone 5.

 

In GLBench for graphics, there are two S4 Pro's listed. One has numbers slightly slower than the iPhone 5 and the other is slightly faster. The LG phone that was slower is clocked at 1.5GHz. No clock is given for the faster phone, but the S4 Pro can go to 1.7GHz (according to Qualcomm), and considering the difference in numbers it's very likely this phone is running at 1.7GHz.

 

So it takes the next gen processors four cores and 1.7GHz to finally unseat the iPhone 5. Wow, that S4 Pro is one heck of a processor. /S/S/S/S/S/S

 

 

And we haven't even gotten to power consumption yet. :)

 

 

EDIT: Xiaomi claims their S4 Pro is in fact clocked at 1.5GHz, so not sure why they benchmark faster than others.

First off why do you need GPS to get to the Mall? Second keeping databases updated for GPS systems is an ongoing problem that all GPS systems suffer from. There is an expectation that people make rational evaluations of the routes offered up to make sure they jive with reality.

Apples Maps certainly has issues, that can't be denied, but coming up with artificial tests and then declaring the software useless is garbage. There isn't a GPS system out there that is 100% accurate, this simple due to time lag in many cases.

I love how AI forum goers can troll themselves in the absence of real trolls.

 

I love how you think there's an "absence" of trolls…

😕

And yet, you have so little to show for it. 

 

For you folks watching the show from home, please enjoy the double entendre.

 

...and only 888Mb of RAM.

 

What happened to the rest?

It called a test case/scenario, something Apple should have used more before they replaced a less-then-perfect mapping application with a clearly inferior substitute.

So far, the phone works as advertised. Maps works, has some kinks but so far so good. If you're that dependent on a maps program without getting lost, consider a regular phone and an atlas!

 

Apple made the right choice in ditching google maps.

not guilty is not the same as innocent!

 

Though that IS the definition of innocent, you're right in that courts often get things wrong.

You're missing out on half the fun of Android. They can name a phone something like the Galaxy SIII, but that still doesn't tell you what the phone is. Different processors, different amounts of RAM and no way of knowing without checking.

Add that to the "what version of Android did my brand new phone come with" and "what are the chances that I'll ever be able to upgrade the OS on my phone or get security patches" and it's a world of fun.

The International version only has the 1GB RAM, not 2GB like the other variations. It's also one of the two that has the quad-core Cortex-A9 but I think it's built on the 45nm process so it's very power hungry. I'd rather take the dual-core Krait — essential Cortex-A9 but with many aspects coming to Cortex-A15, not unlike the iPhone 5's A6 — but without al the crap that T-Mobile, AT&T, et al. have added to it the ROM to slow it down.


I agree with this, but I don't agree with the time in which they did it or their seemingly lack of interest in any StreetView-like feature.

Note: I was recorded in line yesterday for the iPhone by a NAVTEQ car. I could see Apple simply licensing their tech instead of doing their own even though they surely could have with ease. It's not like we didn't know about Apple's Maps plans years ago.

While it is indeed interesting stuff, it doesn't really sell me the phone as it's full of compromises and no meaningful advantages (but some meaningful disadvantages) compared to the 4S.

Regarding the ability to remove the battery, if you can't see a use for that, you're extremely narrow minded. The irreplaceable battery is a shortcoming on any phone, as it prevents people from carrying extra fully charged battery replacements. While there are third-party accessories in the market to partially address this issue (on the iPhone 4/4S only), those accessories address the issue in an extremely inefficient way, since a lot of power is lost to charge the main battery of the phone.

It really is very snappy. My 2 year-old 4 with 5 is kind of pokey, but the 5 with 6 is a screaming 10!

Even on the iPhone 4 the new Maps is snappier. It wasn't at first on my iPhone 4. I think it was beta 3(?) that really sped it up.

Ditching Google is right on so many levels for Apple.  The timing of the Maps replacement was just plain poor/rushed.  The problems with Maps will all be worked out soon, and many Android fans will still be waiting for their ICS upgrade that may never come.